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Exploring AI anthropology: how artificial intelligence shapes culture and social life, through the lens of social and cultural anthropology.
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Radar — Accra and the struggle to build African AI
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The United Nations backs correcting a centuries-old cartographic distortion. Three weeks later, Accra is debating another form of representation of the continent: the one being encoded into artificial intelligence systems.
The 2026 Ecomarcha cycled through the burnt landscapes between León and Xixón. What its chronicles record, and what a predictive model cannot reconstruct on its own.
China is proposing an open artificial intelligence ecosystem around BRICS to expand the technological capacity of the Global South. The initiative promises to reduce dependencies, although infrastructure, capabilities and forms of governance remain profoundly unevenly distributed.
From fear of abandonment to the self as a mine. What happens when a company can change who is on the other side